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  • Ballywholan Portal Tomb: Carnfadrig

    Topics:
    • Historic environment, 
    • Archaeology & Monuments

    BT76 0HE
    United Kingdom

    Contact

    Phone: 028 9082 3207
    Email: scmenquiries@communities-ni.gov.uk

    Additional Information

    Open to the public: Yes, entry is free (Sometimes public access is restricted due to works for example. Check before you visit)
    Grid reference: H5554948997
    View on the Historic Environment Map Viewer
    SM number: TYR 065:003
    View details on the NI Sites & Monuments Record (NISMR)

    About Ballywholan Portal Tomb: Carnfadrig

    At the east end of a long, narrow, rectangular cairn is a large chamber made of three stones, entered between two portal stones (one leaning at an angle) and over a sill. At the west end are two chambers, set back-to-back and running north-south. Other settings of stones within the cairn are puzzling. They have been claimed to be further chambers, but the cairn is much disturbed and they may be the mutilated remains of structural features. This monument can be classified as a portal tomb, with subsidiary chambers. Like Carnagat, this cairn was partly excavated in 1897, when burned and unburned bone, pottery and flint implements were found. The name, Carnfadrig or Carnpatrick, comes from a traditional association with St Patrick, who was believed to have travelled along this valley from Armagh to visit St MacCairthinn at Clogher.

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    • Love Heritage NI
    Ballywholan Portal Tomb: Carnfadrig
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